• TootSweet@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Interesting. It got a lot wrong, though:

    • It thought I was running in a virtual machine, which I am not.
    • It said I had a camera and microphone attached, and I don’t have either.
    • It also said I “typed the link yourself”, which isn’t true. I clicked the link in Lemmy in this post (I control-clicked to open in a new tab, that is).
    • It said I’m “using a mouse, not a trackpad” which is incorrect. I am using a trackpad.
    • It said my typing rhythm was “uneven, hunt-and-peck” and suggested I was “distracted”, but also said my typing speed was 103wpm. How does that make sense? I’m definitely using the home row if that makes a difference.

    On the typing one, here’s my typing speed:

    > time read l
    the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
    
    real	0m5.553s
    user	0m0.000s
    sys	0m0.000s
    > python3 -c 'print(9*60/5)'
    108.0
    

    So, they weren’t far wrong on that typing speed.

    But none of the rest of what they saw surprised me any. I’m not using a VPN or anything. It’d be a good site to use if I wanted to reduce my fingerprintability, though. (That or the EFF one.)

    • AlSweigart@lemmy.zipOPM
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      1 month ago

      Yeah. It’s somewhat hit or miss, but when it hits, it makes me realize how many fingerprintable things there are about browsers. Many of these I hadn’t really considered before. It’s much more than IP addresses, cookies, and user-agent strings.